Something I did not know:
From the Vancouver Sun letters:
Re: Burnaby incinerator emissions expected to fall: engineer, Jan. 7
Marc Jaccard and Gordon Price are right to consider the stance of the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) regarding incinerators as hypocritical, but there is another reason, aside from sprawl, that makes their stance hypocritical: particulate matter from diesel engines.
Metro Vancouver has regulated off-road diesel machinery since 2011, but the FVRD has failed to follow suit. All the older polluting equipment that can no longer operate in Metro are now in — you guessed it — Abbotsford and Chilliwack, spewing a far more toxic brew than the incinerator ever will. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Paul Richard, Chair, Environmental Protection Technology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Unfortunately, if hypocrisy were a crime we’d all be serving time. Hypocrisy is an attitude, not an approach and is the veil behind which we too often choose to hide our senses of either reason or justice. Let’s not let the kettle get away while we point to the pot.